When someone attempts to bite another person's style, sound, or aesthetic and executes it badly — the original is recognisable, the copy is worse, and the whole thing makes the biter look worse than if they'd just stayed original. A bite fail is uniquely embarrassing because it requires both the audacity to copy and the incompetence to do it poorly. The internet always finds the receipts, and a side-by-side bite fail comparison is a humiliation that tends to circulate for a while.
He tried to copy her whole visual identity and it's a complete bite fail — you can tell exactly who he was going for.
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